Amitabh Bachchan pens an emotional note remembering Dilip Kumar – “His eyes, his walk, his each limb, his every spoken word was like poetry”

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July 9, 2021 - 3:18 PM IST

Legendary actors Amitabh Bachchan and Dilip Kumar came on big screen together in Ramesh Sippy’s Shakti in 1982, where Dilip Kumar played the role of father to Bachchan.

Amitabh Bachchan pens an emotional note remembering Dilip Kumar – “His eyes, his walk, his each limb, his every spoken word was like poetry”

Senior Bachchan took to his blog and wrote and recalled the time when he wasn’t allowed to visit cinema halls and how he often used to hear the magical stories of Dilip Kumar and his presence on the screen. Recalling the time when he saw veteran actor Dilip Kumar on the big silver screen and his starstruck moment when he met the legend in person. On his blog, Amitabh Bachchan shared, “The name that had been floating in that vacuum suddenly took shape, right there on the screen in front of me .. large and in black and white .. that name, that visual often repeated in converse .. DILIP KUMAR .. there was something in his presence .. when he appeared all others became a blurred focus .. when he spoke, you felt right, convinced .. and you came back with all of that home .. and it remained with you.”

Bachchan also shared how he showed the confidence once when he saw Dilip Kumar at a restaurant and he rushed to him courageously to get his autograph He recalled, “After long contemplation which drove me to awe and shivering excitement, I decided to approach him for an autograph .. but no autograph book .. so out again in the street, a book bought and inside the restaurant again and the relief to still find him there .. the walk up to him .. he is concentrated conversation .. i push my words to him in general and the book in hand .. there is no reaction .. he did not even look at me or the book .. and after a short while walked away , out through the door and gone .. the autograph book still in my vacant hands .. the autograph book was not important at all .. it was his presence .. that’s it.”

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Talking about Dilip Kumar’s charisma, Amitabh shared, “You never found a single element out of place when he performed on screen or in his non public appearance , or even the public appearance .. his eyes his walk his each limb his every spoken word was like poetry .. the graph and the tone , the pauses the rapid fire , the run by a train , that glass of the sorrow and the inconsequential and consequential expressions of learning.”

Amitabh was also seen in Dilip Kumar’s last rites where the veteran actor was buried at Juhu Qabrastan. He wrote, “I stand in front of this mound on the earth, freshly dug .. a few garlands and flowers scattered about over the mound .. and no one around him .. he sleeps underneath .. under the earth of his bearing .. it is peaceful and quiet .. this large presence .. this mountain of talent .. this gregarious creative visionary .. this excellence of the excelled .. the ultimate .. now reduced to a small mound of grave .. he is gone.”

He concluded his note by saying, “History shall ever be .. before Dilip Kumar after Dilip Kumar .. that is how it always was .. now more so than ever.”

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